我魂厌烦我的性命；我必任由自己述说我的苦情；因魂里苦恼，我要说话。
My soul loathes my own life; / I will let my complaint have free course in me; / I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

我要对神说，不要定我为恶；要指示我，你为何与我争辩。
I will say to God, Do not account me wicked; / Make known to me why You contend with me.

你手劳碌所造的，你又欺压，又藐视，却照耀恶人的计谋；这事你以为美么？
Does it seem good to You to oppress, / To despise the toil of Your hands / And shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

你的眼岂是肉眼么？你察看，岂像人察看么？
Do You have eyes of flesh? / Or do You see as a man sees?

你的日子岂像人的日子，你的年岁岂像人的年岁，
Are Your days like the days of a man, / Or Your years like the days of a mighty man,

以致你追问我的罪孽，寻察我的罪么？
That You would seek out my iniquity / And search for my sin,

其实，你知道我没有行恶，并且没有能救我脱离你手的。
Even though You know that I am not wicked / And that there is none who can deliver out of Your hand?

你的手塑造我，造作我的四肢百体，你却要毁灭我。
Your hands have shaped me and made me altogether, / Yet You destroy me.

求你记念，你造作我如抟泥一般；你还要使我归于尘土么？
Remember now that You have made me like clay; / And will You return me to the dust?

你不是将我倒出好像奶，使我凝结如同奶酪么？
Have You not poured me out like milk / And curdled me like cheese?

你以皮和肉为衣给我穿上，用骨与筋把我联络起来。
You have clothed me with skin and flesh / And woven me together with bones and sinews.

你将生命和慈爱赐给我，你的眷顾也保守我的灵。
You have granted me life and lovingkindness, / And Your visitation has preserved my spirit.

然而你待我的这些事，早已藏在你心里；我知道这是你的意思：
But You have hidden these things in Your heart; / I know that this is with You:

我若犯罪，你就察看我，并不赦免我的罪孽；
If I sin, You mark me, / And You do not acquit me of my iniquity;

我若行恶，便有了祸；我若为义，也不敢抬头，正是饱受羞辱，看见自己的困苦。
If I am wicked, woe unto me; / If I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head, / Being filled with dishonor and looking on my affliction.

我若昂首自得，你就如狮子追捕我；又在我身上显出奇事。
And if my head should be lifted up, You would hunt me down like a lion, / And You would again demonstrate wonders on me.

你更换见证人攻击我，向我加增恼怒，如军兵轮番攻击我。
You renew Your witnesses against me / And increase Your anger against me; / Attacking waves and a host are against me.

你为何使我出母胎呢？不如我当时气绝，无眼得见我；
And why have You brought me out of the womb? / I should have died that no eye had seen me;

就如从来没有我一般；一出母胎，就被送入坟墓。
I should have been as though I had not been; / I should have been carried from birth to the grave.

我的日子不是甚少么？求你住手宽容我，
Are not my days few? Cease then, / And let me alone, that I may be somewhat revived,

叫我在往而不返之先，就是往黑暗和死荫之地以先，可以稍得畅快；
Before I go, and never return, / To the land of darkness and the shadow of death,

那地黑暗，如同幽暗，是死荫混沌之地，即使发光也像幽暗。
The land of gloom like deep darkness, / The shadow of death without order, / Which shines like deep darkness.